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For years, Rhode Island was one of just two states in the union without a funding formula for its public schools. And then, for a time, it was the only state with that dubious dis-tinction. Fuzzy math By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 25, 2010

Rhode Island education commissioner Deborah Gist’s take-charge style could make a winner of a state that often seems destined to fail. But critics say her free-market approach won’t work. The Reformer By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | April 23, 2010

Considering that Alan Ayckbourn may be the most staged living English playwright besides Shakespeare, as some accounts declare, why isn't he produced more often in American theaters? 2nd Story fulfills its Comic Potential By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 05, 2010

In your recent story “ Boston Public-School Apartheid? ”, charter public schools are faulted for taking disadvantaged Boston students and sending them on to excellent high schools and, eventually, college. Why shouldn’t low-income students of color have Boston Phoenix letters, October 23, 2009 By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 23, 2009

So the economy sucks, you’re in a miserable rut at work, and you’re not getting any younger. What are you going to do about it? You’ve decided to go back to school. Now what? By RYAN STEWART | October 16, 2009

To use the word “accountable” in conjunction with Mayor Thomas M. Menino is laughable in the extreme, because if there’s one thing that this guy is not, it’s accountable. Letters to the Boston editor, October 16, 2009 By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 16, 2009

At the Edward W. Brooke School in Roslindale — a kindergarten-to-eighth-grade public charter school — the push to advance graduates to elite secondary programs begins in fifth grade. Think busing was a problem in this town? Some are labeling charter schools as Boston's newest educational battleground By CHRIS FARAONE | October 09, 2009

The race to elect a new mayor of Boston has been in progress for several weeks, and at last there are indications that the candidates are capable of intelligent thought — at least about improving the city's public schools. Three new ways of thinking By EDITORIAL | June 10, 2009

Did you think we were done ripping the Neanderthal who set the country back five decades in just eight years? Well, we kind of are, but we also want to be the first to mock Texans who will soon begin discussing plans to build a library commemorating Amer Did you think we were done ripping the Neanderthal who set the country back five decades in just eight years? Well, we kind of are, but we also want to be the first to mock Texans who will soon begin discussing plans to build a library commemorating America's first illiterate president. By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 26, 2009

In 1998, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma envisioned connecting artists and audiences around the world by focusing on the cultures along the historic 4000-mile Silk Road trade route. Commingling cultures By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | March 04, 2009

As Rhode Island continues to struggle with budget deficits and economic development, the future of education is a piece of a large puzzle. The answer will have a serious impact on the state’s economic future By IAN DONNIS | June 11, 2008

On June 10, Mainers in both the Democratic and Republican parties will get to vote on people to represent them in Washington DC. Who we'd like to see in the first round By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | June 04, 2008

More pitiable than being a Democrat in President George W. Bush’s America is to be an African-American Democrat. The Republican rape of New Orleans. Plus, Rumsfeld and Romney By EDITORIAL | April 19, 2006